Psychosocial Consulting Services
Psychgroup delivers targeted psychosocial risk and OHS/WHS consulting to help organisations prevent psychological injury, align with compliance and build mentally healthy workplaces. We combine psychological expertise, regulatory insight, and practical implementation to reduce liability, improve wellbeing, and strengthen organisational performance.
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What We Provide
1. Desktop Audit & Infrastructure Assessment
- Review of policies, procedures, incident and safety data, and governance arrangements.
- Gap analysis against regulatory aligned standards and best practice.aligned standards and best practice.
- Assessment of systems for identifying, reporting and responding to psychosocial hazards.
- Practical recommendations and a clear roadmap to align systems with legislative duties and a safe system of work.
2. Psychosocial Risk Assessment
- Workplace profiling using a validated survey and/or targeted interviews.
- Identification of psychosocial hazards, hotspots, and severity.
- Team, workarea and sitelevel heat maps with protectivefactor overlays.
- Prioritised Prevention Plans with actionable controls to reduce risk and disruption.
3. Strategy, Design & Implementation
- Psychosocial Risk strategy development and prevention planning.
- Job design and redesign to reduce exposure to psychosocial hazards.
- Design and implementation of risk controls and monitoring frameworks.
- Support for managing sexual harassment, positive duty obligations, vicarious and cumulative trauma, and occupational violence and aggression.
Our Approach
Evidence-based: Led by registered psychologists with specialist expertise in psychosocial risk, psychological injury and workplace wellbeing.
Regulatory aware: Practical understanding of WHS/OHS obligations and regulator expectations, without being solely compliancedriven.
Practical & Actionable: We translate findings into tangible, prioritised actions that leaders and teams can implement.
Flexible delivery: Assessments and advisory work delivered remotely or onsite to suit your context.
Outcomes You Can Expect
- Clear understanding of psychosocial risk exposure across your organisation
- Prioritised, cost effective prevention actions that reduce absenteeism and turnover.
- Strengthened systems for early identification, control and monitoring of hazards.
- Improved employee wellbeing, resilience and organisational productivity
Why Psychgroup
Psychgroup combines specialist psychological expertise with practical consulting capability to help organisations prevent psychological harm and build mentally healthy workplaces. We deliver training, advisory, and program development services to government agencies, state regulators, and private sector clients across Australia.
Why It Matters
Psychgroup combines specialist psychological expertise with practical consulting capability to help organisations prevent psychological harm and build mentally healthy workplaces. We deliver training, advisory, and program development services to government agencies, state regulators, and private sector clients across Australia.
Consulting Expertise
Our team is led exclusively by registered psychologists with deep experience in psychosocial risk, psychological injury, organisational behaviour, and WHS/OHS compliance. We translate evidencebased theory into pragmatic solutions—policy, process, tools, and training—that leaders and teams can implement immediately.
Regulatory and Operational Insight
With direct experience inside a state regulator and an ongoing consulting partnership with WorkSafe Victoria, Psychgroup understands regulatory expectations, compliance pathways, and enforcement priorities. That insight ensures our advice is both compliant and operationally realistic.
Psychosocial Risk Assessment
Our Psychosocial Risk Assessment Tool is a workplace survey designed to ensure the organisation is meeting its duties under Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) and Work Health and Safety (WHS) laws by taking proactive measures to identify and control psychological health and safety risks.
Controlling risks is also seen to decrease the disruption associated with staff turnover and absenteeism and is seen to also improve broader organisational performance and productivity.
Our risk assessment will:
Identify which psychosocial hazards are present
- Isolate where the hazards are more prominent
- Assess the severity of the hazards
- Provide guidance on controlling control the risks
Psychgroup consultants are experienced in OHS Psychological Health and Safety professionals and can work with key Board Members, Executives, Managers, HR, WHS, and HSR personnel to implement a risk assessment and design effective controls.
Prevention Plans
Prevention plans are used by employers to document risks associated with certain psychosocial hazard (s) identified in a workplace. They support by structuring a plan for how the organisation plans to control the risk (s) associated with the hazards and highlight a plan for consultation, implementation, monitoring and review.
Prevention plans are recommended for certain psychosocial hazards such as:
- Aggression and Violence
- Exposure to Trauma
- Exposure to high job demands (e.g. shift work)
- Sexual harassment and gendered violence
Psychgroup consultants are experienced Occupational Health & Safety professionals and can work with key Board Members, Executives, Managers, Human Resources, Work Health and Safety, and Health and Safety Representatives to design and implement standard Prevention Plans.
Commonly Recognised Psychosocial Hazards
Low Role Clarity
Low Job Control
Low Recognition and Reward
High Job Demands
Low Job Demands
Remote and Isolated Work
Poor Support
Bullying
Poor Organisational Justice
Exposure to Trauma
Work Related Violence and Agression
Poor Organisational Change Mangaement
Ready to start?
Contact Psychgroup to discuss a tailored assessment or prevention program. We’ll help you choose the right mix of audit, assessment and implementation support to meet your legal duties and protect your people.